The Eighteenth Century of Xuyang in the Red Chamber

February [-] is the Flower Festival, and it is Lin Daiyu's birthday.Lin Daiyu hasn't celebrated her birthday for several years. First, her younger brother died, then Jia Min became seriously ill, and then she kept filial piety for her mother... The little girl was just when she didn't remember much, and her parents solemnly celebrated her birthday. It was celebrated, but unfortunately she couldn't remember it long ago.

Lin Ruhai's mentality is completely different now, no matter how much she hurts her daughter.Lin Ruhai heard that Lin Daiyu really liked riding horses, so she hurriedly picked a docile pony as a gift for Lin Daiyu.Xu Yang finally snatched his mini hut back from Lin Ruhai, so there was a ready-made birthday present... Lin Daiyu was so happy that she kept her filial piety in Jia's house for a few years, and her birthdays were passed in a hurry. How can anyone be like this? Carefully prepare a gift for her?Not to mention these two gifts are too special!

Because there are few people in the family, and the filial piety has not socialized with the outside world in the past few years, so Daiyu doesn't have any close friends in her boudoir, so she can only congratulate her family.Aunt Meng simply invited a group of well-known opera troupes from Yangzhou to come over to sing, without setting up a stage, and a few little girls sang in the yard when they dressed up, which made the maids and servants at home very happy, and said bluntly It's good for a big girl to celebrate her birthday once a month!Let them also have some drama to watch.

Lin Daiyu has listened to operas in Jia's mansion in the past few years, but they are all invited from the Beijing troupe. Southern opera singing is always not authentic, but this time I have listened to enough, but it is a pity that the repertoire is too catchy mad.Xu Yang insisted on hearing about making trouble in the Heavenly Palace, saying that listening to the opera is just a lively scene, so it can be seen that Xu Yang is hopelessly cured, the cute little girl just let someone pretend to be a monkey!Lin Ruhai was very satisfied, knowing that Xu Yang deliberately made Lin Daiyu listen to the excitement so as not to become such a panicked look as written in the book, so he also strongly agreed to watch Havoc in Heaven, and several women were so angry that they scolded these two people for not The taste is very good, the small theater troupe is not good at this kind of martial arts at all, but they still ordered Havoc in Heaven according to these two people.

After hearing about Havoc in Heaven, Mrs. Xu wanted to listen to the single-handed meeting again, but no one agreed this time. It's a birthday, why listen to this thing?In the end, I changed "Unforgettable", but I was still laughed at by Xu Yang: "Your little girl is only nine years old, and she is going to listen to "Unforgettable" for her birthday, hahahaha, ah!!!!" The sound was knocked on the head by Mrs. Xu.

Lin Daiyu didn't let others, and didn't answer his topic, but said coolly: "On my brother's birthday, I must listen to Chunxiang's trouble!" Xu Yang was so choked that he didn't dare to reply. It's the same thing whether you say it or not, what's so proud of a little girl?Not to mention that there are three eccentric people next to them, so it's not easy to seek abuse!

Mrs. Xu and Aunt Meng's gifts to Lin Daiyu were quite standard, nothing more than clothes and jewelry. Mrs. Xu was getting old and asked her servants to make clothes, and she gave a set of jewelry that a little girl could wear.Aunt Meng made two sets of clothes, shoes and socks by herself.The maids also had presents, and privately chipped in some money to celebrate Lin Daiyu. After two days of tossing around, the smile on Lin's face never stopped.In less than half a year, Lin Daiyu was far away from the image of the sickly sister Lin in the Dream of the Red Chamber.

The Flower Festival is over, and it's time for Lin Daiyu to go to school.In fact, Chunwei Women's School started in Lichun, but it was an old student in the upper grades, and the freshman still had to take an entrance exam, right?Besides, it is too chaotic for freshmen and old students to rush to enroll together, so just like our university now, old students start school first, and freshmen go after ten days.

Xu Yang's day of listening was later.Mr. Ji is getting old, and there are many teachers in Chongya Academy, so he does not attend classes when the early spring is still relatively cold, and he will not start to give lectures until after the Jingzhe.But Xu Yang could take the opportunity to practice horse riding first, so on Lin Daiyu's first day of school, he rode a horse and followed Lin Daiyu's carriage, euphemistically called escorting his sister to school, and happily went to Chunwei College.

As far as Xu Yang is concerned, he is too busy to be idle. He dared to escort his sister when he was barely able to ride a horse!You must know that his jockey has to follow him in fear to protect him!But it's great to finally have an honest reason to go out. Although Xu Yang is a child who loves to study, he really shouldn't hold back for a while.God, it's been almost three months since he started studying hard!He was tired of looking at those faces in the yard all day long, even those pretty little girls!Chunwei Women's School is not far from Lin's house. The carriage is walking slowly, not much faster than walking. Xu Yang has only learned half a month of half-riding riding skills, which is at most this speed. It doesn't feel slow. Breathing the air outside is also feel very comfortable.It's so slow, and it will arrive in less than ten minutes.

The curriculum of Chunwei Women's School is quite tight, but it is still a women's school after all, so it's not like the high school in the past.It starts at 07:30 in the morning and ends at Shenshi in the afternoon, which is about 07:30 and ends at [-]:[-] in the afternoon.Although the ancients paid attention to learning and dancing, but girls should pay more attention to etiquette, unlike Chongya's Juzi who live on campus, girls live at home, so of course you can't be ambiguous in the morning and evening, so go to school at every hour , Chen Shi Mo (that is, [-]:[-]) officially started.Rules and etiquette should be stricter for women.

Sister Lin went to school, accompanied by two maids and two women, and a coachman and two servants with the carriage, but of course these people couldn't all follow into the school, and they wouldn't let a carriage work just outside the school gate. After waiting for a day, I sent Lin Daiyu off and returned to the Lin residence. Anyway, the Lin family is only two or three miles away from Chunwei (Note 1), so even if something happened, there was still time for someone to run back and call for a taxi.

In order to make it easier for girls to get on and off the bus, Chunwei Girls' School is facing the street, but the gate does not directly face the street, but builds a road along the walls of the school on both sides of the street. The gate is only ten feet in diagonally. When the students get out of the car, they don't have to turn the car and walk ten feet on the other side of the road, and then diagonally back to the street.This small road is only big enough for cars, and it is okay to temporarily stop the car to drop the students off, but obviously there is no place suitable for long-term parking.The trapezoidal area between the small road and the street built by the school, which belonged to the school, was rented out to open a stationery shop and a silk and satin shop, and the business is good next to the girls' school.

The street next to it is less than half a mile to the south, facing the bustling Dongguan Street. Many people go to Dongguan Street through this road in front of Chunwei Girls' School, so the carriages that send female students are also It can't stop here, if dozens of carriages are competing with the lady who is waiting here at home, I'm afraid it will cause a traffic jam.The male servant should leave one outside the door, in case there is something to run errands.And Lin Daiyu can bring a maid in to serve the pen and ink, but too many are not enough.

At the gate of Chunwei Girls' School, Xu Yang hurriedly got off his horse and went to Lin Daiyu's car to help open the curtain, but Lin Daiyu laughed and said, "Brother, don't be so busy, this is not what you do!" Xu Yang backed away embarrassingly. He took a step forward and said, "Why don't I go in with my sister? Are you not afraid of not being accompanied by an adult on your first day of school?" Even though Lin Daiyu was a little nervous at first, she was amused by him: "I can't do the crown ceremony! Are you an adult now?"

As he spoke, he stood firm beside the car, then turned around and greeted Xu Yangfu squarely: "It was a joke just now, I know my brother's kindness, it's just that my father brought me here during the exam. I know where to go. The rules here are strict, and family members who are not invited by the school are not allowed to come in at will. The weather is not warm, brother should hurry home!"

Xu Yang was taken aback for a moment, then feigned anger and said, "I've been separated from me before I went to school! If you really finish studying for three years, do you have to bow to me three times and nine times when you meet each other? Go, go, go to school as soon as possible!" !"

Lin Daiyu didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "You are my brother and not my father, why do you want to bow and kowtow! Go back and ride slowly, you will learn, falling is not for fun!"

Xu Yang broke down: "I'm not an uncle, but you are more wordy than my mother! Who is going to send whom? Hurry up, I'm still waiting for you to give me a lecture when I come back!"

After all, she was still worried, and said to Xueyan: "Your girl is weak, you can give her three or five more hand stoves!" Cage it in! Just let the young lady sit on it for class, otherwise the young lady won’t be able to fit three or five hand stoves in her sleeves.” Lin Daiyu had already turned away, but her shoulders shook slightly, and Xu Yang knew that she must be snickering, alas, ancient times People destroy people, such a little girl dare not laugh out loud.

Xu Yang cheerfully watched Lin Daiyu walk into Chunwei's gate gracefully, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "It's really scary. Girls aged 8 or 9 walk gracefully like this. What will they look like when they grow up?" It's not that Lin Daiyu walks How swaying and charming it is, but her actions are really like the weak willows and the wind that the ancients said, the long skirt reaches the ground, and she will never step on the skirt when she walks, and she will never show her feet. Xu Yang can't use words Describing that kind of demeanor, I only feel that it is upright but not rigid. Although it is still the size of a little girl, it is full of demeanor along the way, and the back view is enough to be painted.

Xu Yang was stunned for a while, then shook his head, amazing!Seeing a little girl walking would be dumbfounded. Sure enough, I was facing a group of underage girls all day long. One of them got the problem of ancient lolicon without paying attention.

Turning around, let the coachman take Chunxian and the wives back to the house first, and then he took the jockey and the boy to ride slowly along the road to Dongguan Street.

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Note 1: The modern mile is equal to 500 meters, and most of the time in ancient times, it was about the same amount. It was generally shorter than 500 meters, and more than 400 meters... Here it is about 500 meters, so two or three miles are just a little more than one kilometer.